Any reason for a ton of soot?

^^ RIGHT!

damn. time to call the eye doctor.

hi.new to this forum but I have a 6039 also. When looking inside the box, there is a plate on both sides on the walls.These plates are a part of the heat exchanger along with the metal top of the fire box.I use a small bendable brush to clean behind both of them. When looking at your stove it doesn't look like you have a fresh air kit. This FAK when used with a ball valve to adjust the air flow can help your burn rate. The soot looks like fly ash to my unprofessional eye,I get that on my backer board also. I also get black soot like residue when i mix in corn and do increase the air flow. The amount of ash can have a lot to do with the quality of premium/super premium/or standard pellets. Your flame looks great and it does not appear to have soot rolling of the tips. I clean mine every 3 days and use the blower trick once a month

The exhaust blower motor is on the right rear side as you face the front, the room fan motor is on the other side. I ALWAYS unplug the stove before removing the panels so I dont short the control board. When removing the exhaust motor by unbolting the 6 small bolts, I keep a tube of red hi temp rtv silicone gasket maker on hand to replace the gasket that will eventually fall apart. I run the blower on hi for 4 to 5 mins to clear the ash from the stove every day. Some clean their blowers once a year, I do mine in the middle and at the end of the year.

Superstang83 said:

When I took the sides off I noticed that the 1 1/2" or 2" vent coming in from the back had fallen off on the inside of the stove. I don't know if this matters or if it is affecting what is going on or not.

stephen, I do have an adjustable draft control, and have played with it quite a bit, but the fire seems like it was burning really well. It was burning just as well as the firesides.

Yeah I am going to return the wet pellets. They seem like a big mess. They are all dried out and just crumble everywhere.

Where is the heat exchanger?

I am heading to bed now, and am about to run the stove, I'll chime back in tomorrow and let everyone know how their advice worked out for me. Thank you very much everyone


Jacob

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Hey Jacob,
Curious about the 1 and 1/2 or 2 " vent not attatched. I'm guessing by the size it's a fresh air supply. Any difference when you reconnected it ?

Stang,

Glad your back in the heat of things. I noticed last night while watching the fire with one of our little buddys ( gotta push the dogs out of the way to get at the stove! ) that I have some "soot " or ashes on my brick too. I don't think its too bad though. cmooreburn is right, always disconnect your power when doing anything with the stove. When I clean mine I have a small boiler cleaning brush to clean behind the rear clean outs. Also have a wire brush with a heavy plastic handle that I rap on inside of stove and brush top and sides well. This brings down quite a bit of ash. Also have adapted a small diameter hose for the shop vac so I can snake it in the right side rear clean out into the inlet of the combustion blower and can get quite a bit of ash from the blower housing with out taking anything apart. I also remove the brick and clean it and behind. Looks like your burnin pretty well now. I also get a haze on my glass after a day or so, more when burning on 1 or 2. Oh and I also pull my damper all the way out for a minute or less once a day to "clean" the burn pot.
Good luck and stay warm ... keep the stove runnin hot, the dogs are depending on us!!

Schoondog

macman said:

schoondog said:

.....Take blower outside and clean with compressed air if you have it. If not vacuum it and the housing and reassemble.

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Best way to clean blower vanes is to use a wire brush and gently brush the carbon off. Then use a thin flexible putty knife w/ about a 1 1/2" wide blade & go under the vanes & scrape the carbon off the motor mounting plate too.....THEN do the compressed air on that & through the motor air holes.

Hey, I'm anal about this stuff.....a clean motor & fan is a happy motor & fan....LOL.

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Macman,
I've cleaned my comb. blower twice now and both times a 30 sec. blast of 125 psi. air had it lookin like new, no scrubbin or scrapin required. Kinda light ash on it comes right off. :cheese:

Schoondogy

I didn't notice an OAK (outside air kit) maybe that would help.